Hayo Vierck
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Hayo Vierck was a German archaeologist, who made a distinguished contribution to German Early Medieval archaeology through research in the industrial arts.
, Vierck studied Pre- and Proto-history with the subsidiary subjects of Classical Archaeology and Folklore in Munich
and obtained his doctorate in 1969 under Joachim Werner
with a dissertation on North English and West Scandinavian Costume Accessories in the 5th and 6th Centuries. Finishing that, he undertook a second research project in Oxford
, which culminated in his attainment of Bachelor of Letters (B. Litt.) in the Department of European Archaeology. He became Fellow of the External research unit 7 'Medieval research' of Münster University from 1969 until 1985, and Professor of 'Art and Craft in the Early Middle Ages' (Kunst und Handwerk im Frühmittelalter) at the Seminar for Protohistory and Early History. His special research strengths were his Work of Eligius
and the Imitatio Imperii.
He was married to Sigrid Vierck, who wrote a dissertation on the Ægis, Die Aigis: Zu Typologie und Ikonographie eines Mythischen Gegenstandes and in 2008 was elected Abbess of the Lutheran conventual monastery of Walsrode Abbey
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Career
Hayo Vierck took an early interest in the history and archaeology of his homeland while at secondary school, and also had early contact with Haithabu. After taking his school certificate examinations in 1962 in PlönPlön
Plön is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 13,000 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides...
, Vierck studied Pre- and Proto-history with the subsidiary subjects of Classical Archaeology and Folklore in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
and obtained his doctorate in 1969 under Joachim Werner
Joachim Werner (archaeologist)
Joachim Werner was a German archaeologist who was especially concerned with the archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Germany...
with a dissertation on North English and West Scandinavian Costume Accessories in the 5th and 6th Centuries. Finishing that, he undertook a second research project in Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, which culminated in his attainment of Bachelor of Letters (B. Litt.) in the Department of European Archaeology. He became Fellow of the External research unit 7 'Medieval research' of Münster University from 1969 until 1985, and Professor of 'Art and Craft in the Early Middle Ages' (Kunst und Handwerk im Frühmittelalter) at the Seminar for Protohistory and Early History. His special research strengths were his Work of Eligius
Saint Eligius
Saint Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors. He is also the patron saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers , a corps of the British Army, but he is best known for being the patron saint of horses and those who work with them...
and the Imitatio Imperii.
He was married to Sigrid Vierck, who wrote a dissertation on the Ægis, Die Aigis: Zu Typologie und Ikonographie eines Mythischen Gegenstandes and in 2008 was elected Abbess of the Lutheran conventual monastery of Walsrode Abbey
Walsrode Abbey
Walsrode Abbey in Walsrode, Germany, is one of the historic monasteries on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany which are collectively known as the Lüneklöster...
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Writings
- Hayo Vierck, 'Cortina Tripodis. Zu Aufhängung und Gebrauch subrömischer Hängebecken aus Britannien und Irland', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 4, 1970, pp. 8–52.
- Thorsten Capelle and Hayo Vierck, 'Modeln der Merowinger- und Wikingerzeit', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 5, 1971, pp. 42–100.
- Hayo Vierck, 'Redwalds Äsche', Offa 29 (1972), pp. 20–49.
- Wendy Davies and Hayo Vierck, 'The Contexts of Tribal Hidage: Social Aggregates and Settlement Patterns', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 8, 1974, pp. 223–93.
- Hayo Vierck, 'Werke des Eligius', in Kossack, Georg und Günter Ulbert (Eds.): Studien zur vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie. Festschrift für Joachim Werner. Münchener Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 1974, pp. 309–81.
- Thorsten Capelle and Hayo Vierck, 'Weitere Modeln der Merowinger-und Wikingerzeit. Mit einem Beitrag von Wilhelm Winkelmann', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 9, 1975, p. 110–42.
- Hayo Vierck, 'Die wikingische Frauentracht von Birka', Offa 36, 1981, pp. 119–33.
- Hayo Vierck, Der Neufund aus einem frühmittelalterlichen Kirchenschatz von Enger in Westfalen. (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, 1985).
- Hayo Vierck, 'Imitatio imperii und Interpretatio Germanica vor der Vikingerzeit', in Rudolf Zeitler (Ed.),Les pays du nord et Byzance: (Scandinavie et Byzance); actes du Colloque Nordique et International de Byzantinologie tenu à Upsal 20-22 avril 1979, (Uppsala 1981), pp. 64–101.
- Hayo Vierck, 'Ein schmiedeplatz aus Alt-Ladoga und der präurbane Handel zur Ostsee vor der Wikingerzeit' Zur frühmittelalterlichen betriebseinheit von produktion und Absatz im Metallhandwerk, (Münstersche Beiträge zur Antiken Handelgeschichte), Vol. 2, No. 2, 1983 , pp. 3–64 ISSN 0722-4532.
- Hayo Vierck, 'Hallenfreude. Archäologische Spuren frühmittelalterlicher Trinkgelage und mögliche Wege der Deutung', in Detlef Altenburg, Jörg Jarnut and Hans-Hugo Steinhoff (Eds.), Feste und Feiern im Mittelalter. Paderborner Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes, (1991) pp. 115–24.
- Kurt Schietzel, Hayo Vierck, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and Barbara R. Armbruster, Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu, Vol.34, Wachholtz, January 1, 2002.
Sources
- Volker Bierbrauer 'Nachruf auf Hayo Vierck', in Frühmittelalterliche Studien 23 (1989), pp. 478–85.
- Helmut Roth, 'Hayo Vierck 1939-1989', Praehistorische Zeitung 64 (1989), pp. 159–63.
- Volker Bierbrauer, 'Siegrid Vierck: Schriftenverzeichnis Dr. phil. Hayo Vierck, B. Litt. Oxon..', Prähistorische Zeitschrift 64 (1989), pp. 160–163.
- Partick Périn, 'A la memoire de Hayo Ernst Ferdinand Vierck (1939–1989)', Actes des Xe Journées Internationales d'Archéologie Mérovingienne, (Metz 1994), pp. 5–6 (with portrait)
- The Hayo Vierk archive has been deposited since 2005 in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in MainzMainzMainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
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External links
- Literature of and about Hayo Vierck in the Catalogue of the German National LibraryGerman National LibraryThe German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany...